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June is Men's Health Month
June is Men's Health Month

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/june-is-men-s-health-month/

Jun 01, 2012... Anchored by a Congressional health education program, Men’s Health Month aims to heighten awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease.
The broad-ranging research of Weizmann Institute scientists addresses multiple areas of men’s health, including fighting cancers that are common to men. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), “Every year, cancer claims the lives of nearly 300,000 men in America.” Weizmann research, such as a method for timely detection of prostate cancer, can help protect our fathers, brothers, husbands, friends. Read on for just a few examples of how Institute science is benefitting men’s health.

TAGS: Chemistry, Cancer, Cancer treatment, Senses, Fertility

Fertility Research at the Weizmann Institute
Fertility Research at the Weizmann Institute

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Jul 01, 2012... Reproduction—perhaps the most basic impulse of all living creatures—is also among the most complex and intricate of all human processes, requiring the precise coordination of many biological systems. This becomes most evident when things go wrong. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in the U.S. alone there are more than seven million women with an impaired ability to have children.
Difficulty conceiving can be due to age, stress, health, or any number and combination of factors, many of which come into play as more women wait until later in life to have children. Often such women turn to invasive, expensive procedures to induce pregnancy—procedures that frequently fail and that, even when successful, can cause a host of health problems for the women and children both.

TAGS: Women, Biology, Humanity, Fertility

Sharing Mother's Stress in the Womb Leaves Children Prone to Depression
Sharing Mother's Stress in the Womb Leaves Children Prone to Depression

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Jul 15, 2013... Scientists have found that very high levels of stress in the mother can also overwhelm the barrier enzyme in the placenta, allowing the stress hormone cortisol to cross into the foetus’s brain. Photo: PA
Researchers have discovered a key component of the placenta that normally protects unborn babies from high levels of hormones that build up in their mothers’ blood when she is stressed.
In some mothers, however, this protective element can be faulty, allowing the foetus to be exposed to stress hormones and leaving a child more prone to anxiety and depression in later life.

TAGS: Genetics, Mental health, Enzymes, Blood, Fertility

Science Tips, July 2014
Science Tips, July 2014

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Jul 28, 2014... Using the body’s natural virus killers to prevent and treat HIV infection has been problematic until now because of the strong inflammatory response these molecules can stimulate as they get rid of the invaders. Now, collaborative research conducted by scientists at the Weizmann Institute and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have demonstrated how suppressing the activity of these molecules – interferons – around the time of infection could have long-term implications for the course of the disease. Their research appeared in Nature.

TAGS: Genetics, Biochemistry, Physics, Evolution, Immune system, Virus, Quantum theory, Fertility

Repeated Pregnancy Loss May Be Tied to the Olfactory System
Repeated Pregnancy Loss May Be Tied to the Olfactory System

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Sep 29, 2020... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—September 29, 2020—The odors we give off are a sort of body language – one that may affect our relationships more than we realize. New research from the lab of Prof. Noam Sobel at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests that this “chemical communication” may extend to human reproduction as well. The study, which was published in eLife, found that women who suffer from a condition known as unexplained repeated pregnancy loss (uRPL) process messages concerning male body odor – especially their husband’s – in a different way than other women. These findings may point to new directions in the search for causes and prevention of this poorly understood disorder.

TAGS: Women, Neuroscience, Senses, Fertility

Does the Nose Talk to the Womb?
Does the Nose Talk to the Womb?

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Dec 08, 2020... To be an expectant mother, or the anxious partner of one, is to be keenly, even agonizingly aware of how chemicals affect a developing life. The basic advice is well known, and obsessively followed: Alcohol in strict moderation, and no nicotine at all. Don’t mess with mercury. Folic acid is your friend. More protein and less caffeine. Stay away from BPA, PBCs and PFA, and generally make an enemy of the unpronounceable.

TAGS: Women, Senses, Fertility

A Future Where Women Don’t Need to Give Birth
A Future Where Women Don’t Need to Give Birth

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/a-future-where-women-don-t-need-to-give-birth/

Feb 22, 2022... In this fascinating video produced by the BBC, Prof. Jacob Hanna from Weizmann’s Department of Molecular Biology joins several global experts to discuss embryonic growth outside of the womb.
Hanna and his team made history by growing mouse embryos externally, and Hanna believes in the next ten years clinical trials in humans could be possible.
The potential impacts of growing human fetuses in a synthetic womb are wide-ranging, saving premature babies too underdeveloped for traditional incubators, preventing life-threatening pregnancy complications, and providing an opportunity for people who are unable to conceive for a variety of reasons, to have children.

TAGS: Women, Fertility

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